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bees are quiet and the queen not nervous everything will be alright, 

 but should anything- unusual appear in the bees' manner toward 

 the queen I resort to the isolation of the queen on the combs of 

 hatching brood. 



I have never had good success in leaving the queen caged on 

 the hive, for so often she is balled or rather she and her cage is, 

 and when this happens it is hard to get the bees to accept her. 

 One will be able to judge pretty well whether the bees will accept 

 the queen by their docility and the bearing of the queen. A queen 

 that has been handled carefully will walk out of the cage onto the 

 comb among the bees as sedately and confidently as though she 

 had always belonged there. I watch a few minutes and if every- 

 thing is quiet close the hive and go away. 



Boulder. Col. 



A Texas Bee-Keeper, With An Apiary in Oklahoma, 

 Gives Some Good Advice About Organizations. 



(Read at Oklahoma Meeting.) 



GEO. H. COULSON. 



^^^^R. President: — You have selected for me the sul:)ject of the 

 ^/,£ association of bee-keepers. I am sorry you did this, as upon 

 that subject it might be said that I am an extremist, approx- 

 imating almost to fanaticism, and I fear before I get through you 

 will regard my ideas as extravagant as that of the Irishman who, 

 upon visiting his native country, was asked if it was true that the 

 people in America built houses one on top of another, instead of 

 side by side, and called them "skyscrapers." Pat replied that it was, 

 and that on the last one he worked on in Xew York they had to 

 "jukc down to alloii' tJie moon to pass over, and that America was an 

 easy place to live in, that all he had to do was to carry brick and mor- 

 tar to the top of the house, and there were men up there who did 

 all the work. 



AX( AGE OF ASSOCIATIONS. 



This might be said to be the age of association. In this day 

 every enterprise or avocation, to be succcssfnlly condncted. must 

 have its association. We have the corn grozcers' association, the 

 cotton growers' association, and the cattle, sheep, szcine and poultry 

 dealers all have their associations, and there are subdivisions of 

 these such as Short-honis, Jersey, and so on. for cattle; Poland China 

 and Berkshires for hogs, in breeds and strains almost innumerable, 

 each having their admirers^ and their meetings, which sometimes 

 extend for days, at which the valuable points of these breeds are 



